In Italy, where cooks have long known that beans are versatile as well as delicious, the bean repertory runs the gamut from glorious soups laden with garlicky greens to platters of steaming beans adorned with fat, juicy fennel sausages.
So the rice was served with a vibrant green salad, a platter of sliced ripe tomatoes and a cooling bowl of that raita on the side.
4. At this point you have the option of transferring the greens to a platter or serving the dish right from the pan.
As a young waitress in a gray polo shirt set down bowls of broth, a plate of greens, and a platter of shuddering noodles, Bourdain fished chopsticks from a plastic container on the table.
When your fire is hot, cover the steaks with the dry rub, pressing it into the flesh and fat; drizzle some olive oil over the trimmed heads of romaine; and take everything out to the grill: meats on one platter, greens on another, the dressings, a bowl of grated cheese.
A platter of green beans was appealingly crisp-tender, and the fried cassava with its green and red salsas was compelling.
While the salmon is in the oven, toss the salad greens with the dressing, then mound the greens on a serving platter or individual dinner plates.
Ms. Wu heaped some mustard greens onto a serving platter while her husband opened the oven.
Fantasies of sequestered holy men tending to herb gardens and homemade beer stills were combusted by industrial platters of green beans and pigs-in-blankets provided by Sodexo, the integrated food and facilities management services behemoth.
I remember in summertime bowls of coleslaw, pickled cucumbers and green tomatoes, beet soup, platters of fried or roasted chicken, apple pies and, in winter, double brisket and braised root vegetables, breast of veal stuffed with Swiss chard, lamb braised slowly for hours.
